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I read David Hone's How Fast did T-Rex Run? Unsolved Questions From the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science and really enjoyed it. Hone is a very clear communicator: his explanation of melosomes alone was worth reading the book for. (He describes them as like paint cans where each pigment has a different shape, so even with the pigment missing, we know by the shape what it once was.)

I do wish he didn't feel quite as much need to make predictions about 'what we will learn next' because of course as he explains multiple times, it's nearly impossible to make those predictions because the evidence paleontology uses rests so heavily on random chance. I felt sometimes like the speculation felt obligatory, not like the parts where he talks about what questions researchers have based on current evidence.

That was really a minor frustration though. I had a lot of fun reading the book!